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Alfred Ng

9 Years Ago

Rethink, Remake On My Old Art

Lately, I had been reading many posts on artists being discourage due to lack of sale. Here is my latest entry on my blog:

Rethink, remake on my old art

I had been making art since I was a young boy and kept almost everything I had created. Although I had sold a lot of them but I own plenty more I make art daily, almost as soon as I finished one I would put it away and go right into the next. I treat every piece as a learning lesson to improve my skills and to develop my concept.
Some of my works sold almost as soon as I completed without any effort but some took months or even years. Unlike other artists I don’t get discourage if the work doesn’t sell because I been doing this long enough to know one doesn’t lives or dies with just one work, my enjoyment came from doing them and the discovery of what I could do with it.
I have stacks of prints from my art schools days; few had been seen by the public. Lately, I decided to give them a make over with my more experience eyes and added skills. The first one is from an etching and second one is from a silkscreen. I used paper cut to remake them and paper cut is a new skill I only doing in less than two years, both prints are 35 years old.

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Mary Bedy

9 Years Ago

Alfred, your work is always beautiful whether you're posting new stuff or remaking old stuff.

I have to say, as I've gotten more familiar with Photoshop, I've been able to save some older stuff that was just not good enough to post. Sometime I run across a feature and think "Ah Ha! I can fix that old photo of so and so with this feature!" I've been able to rescue old stuff with new knowledge.

 

Ed Meredith

9 Years Ago

Alfred, you have become a master at this... Nature of Man is stunning!

 

Alfred Ng

9 Years Ago

Thank you Mary, Ed! I like to see myself as low tech human Photoshop.

 

Roy Erickson

9 Years Ago

Alfred - I'll not warn you again - don't plan to return to yourself in the next life - I'm gonna take that spot. (LOL) marvelous reworks.

 

Alfred Ng

9 Years Ago

Roy, you welcome to it but I wanted to come back as an art collector in my next life LOL

 

Ed Meredith

9 Years Ago

Alfred, i know that you were inspired by the cut-paper work you saw on one of your recent visits to China, and my question to you is; did you simply find your natural (intrinsic) talent for cutting or did you do some research on technique?

 

Alfred Ng

9 Years Ago

Ed, I did some research on the Chinese paper cut, most use rice paper with scissors. apparently there are some special cutting tools for it but i haven't find them yet. I just use what I have on hand, a dollar store Xacto knife. For paper ( Watercolor, drawing, print making paper) I use are lot heavier than the rice paper so the knife seems better fit. I think all the years working with watercolor helps because I so used to see negative and positive space.

 

Debbie Oppermann

9 Years Ago

Alfred, your work is beautiful!

 

Always an inspiration, Alfred. I love your cutwork. Agree that seeing negative space is the clue...........your forte, of course.

 

Alfred Ng

9 Years Ago

Thank you so much Vivian, Debbie!

 

Mario Carta

9 Years Ago

Alfred that's along time to be creating art, your dedication shows in your work, you are an inspiration. Especially your comment that you create art everyday!

 

Melissa Bittinger

9 Years Ago

Alfred, have you ever tried the swivel exacto knife? We had to learn (attempt) how to use that tool to cut masks in college for commercial art application.

 

Alfred Ng

9 Years Ago

Mario, I feel very lucky to able to do it everyday.I just couldn't think of anything better.
Melissa, I do have a swivel Xacto knife but somehow I found it is hard to use.

 

To-tam Gerwe

9 Years Ago

Alfred, Roy, are you sure that there are next life?

Just curious, To-Tam

 

Alfred Ng

9 Years Ago

Tam, I have no idea but I think Roy and I knew each other from our past life!

 

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